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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition

Name: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition
Author: Bruce Jackson
ISBN: 9780415969963

Bruce Jackson

244 pages

Harvard University Press

Jan 1974

Hardcover

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Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance

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